On 05/10/2012 08:55 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/09/12 10:36 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even >> numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. > > thats a rather strange requirement. 6.1 is 6.0 with updates rolled up. > > a more sane requirement would be to only allow pre-tested updates, which > you'd do by testing the updates on a staging machine, then posting them > to your own internal yum repository which your production machines would > update from. > This requirement sounds suspiciously like it was made for software that uses the "even numer = stable release, odd number = development release" versioning method. Since that doesn't apply here the requirement doesn't make sense. Regards, Dennis